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An international group of young, experimental painters founded CoBrA in Paris. The Dutch members, Karel Appel, Corneille and Constant, would then determine the face of post-war Dutch painting for several decades. Appel and Corneille were both looking for a new formal language, separate from pre-war artistic conventions and traditions. In 1947 they spent some time in Paris. Appel became acquainted with Jean Dubuffet's Art Brut, as well as the paintings of the mentally ill he saw at an exhibition in the St. Anne asylum. The spontaneity and primal power that emerged from this work gave him inspiration. Shortly afterwards, the first human-animal beings with large heads and questioning eyes appeared in his work that made the Cobra language so recognizable. Corneille also made abstract work, an interplay of lines and free forms. Together with Constant, Anton Rooskens, Eugène Brands, Theo Wolvecamp and Jan Nieuwenhuis, they founded the Experimental Group in July 1948. Not tradition, but man in his purest and most original capacity, without the ballast of the cultural past, would henceforth be the point of reference. All forms of non-figurative experiment were possible. Young Dutch poets including Lucebert joined. The director of the Stedelijk Museum, Willem Sandberg, was their great promoter.

Constant was the man of international contacts. In 1946 he had met the Danish experimental artist Asger Jorn in Paris, under whose influence he began painting fantasy animals and mythical creatures. Jorn had contacts with Belgian avant-garde painters, including Christian Dotremont. In November 1948 Constant, Appel and Corneille traveled to a conference in Paris with experimental Belgians, Danes, French and Czechs. The aim was to discuss the situation of the avant-garde in these countries. However, the Belgians, Danes and Dutch did not want words but actions. On November 8, they entered into a partnership for cooperation in the Café de l'Hôtel Notre-Dame. For their working community they found the name CoBrA, composed of the initials of the capitals Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam. In the years that followed, there was a feverish collaboration, with the international CoBrA exhibition in the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum as the first clear manifesto in 1949. Growing disagreements over fundamental issues caused the group to disintegrate in November 1951.

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Corneille | Presence of summer, oil on canvas, 54.2 x 81.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated '57

Corneille

painting • for sale

Presence of summer

Corneille | Composition with black cat, pink woman and birds, lithograph on paper, 47.6 x 35.7 cm, signed l.r. (in pencil) and dated '96 (in pencil)

Corneille

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Composition with black cat, pink woman and birds

Lucebert | Geheime industrie (Secret industry), ink on paper, 27.0 x 21.0 cm, signed l.c. and dated '56

Lucebert

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Geheime industrie (Secret industry)

Karel Appel | Untitled, acrylic on paper on canvas, 111.9 x 77.1 cm, signed l.r.

Karel Appel

painting • for sale

Untitled

Corneille | Woman with bird and snake, gouache on paper, 66.1 x 51.8 cm, signed u.l. and dated '77

Corneille

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Woman with bird and snake

Lucebert | Untitled, gouache on paper laid down on board, 70.0 x 99.8 cm, signed l.l. and dated 91.III

Lucebert

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Untitled

Lucebert | Javea, pencil, ink and wax charcoals on paper, 20.9 x 26.8 cm, signed l.l. and dated 5 V 71

Lucebert

painting • for sale

Javea

Karel Appel | Happy Flight, lithograph on paper, 55.2 x 74.9 cm, signed l.r. and dated '57

Karel Appel

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Happy Flight

Eugène Brands | '1000 sterren boven het bos' (1000 stars above the forest), gouache on paper, 44.3 x 49.6 cm, signed l.l. and dated 4.56

Eugène Brands

watercolour • drawing • for sale

'1000 sterren boven het bos' (1000 stars above the forest)

Corneille | Untitled (from the Les aventures de Pinocchio series), gouache over silk screen print on paper, 68.1 x 98.7 cm, signed u.l. and dated '73-'75

Corneille

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Untitled (from the Les aventures de Pinocchio series)

Eugène Brands | Woman in a landscape, oil on paper, 35.0 x 46.2 cm, signed l.r. and dated 3.57

Eugène Brands

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Woman in a landscape

Corneille | Carpet Femme à la fleur, wool, coloured, 205.0 x 206.0 cm, signed l.l. (in the rug)

Corneille

statue • sculptuur • for sale

Carpet Femme à la fleur

Eugène Brands | Landschap met wolkenlucht (Landscape with cloudy sky), gouache on paper, 67.4 x 91.0 cm, signed on the reverse and dated on the reverse 16.I.1971

Eugène Brands

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Landschap met wolkenlucht (Landscape with cloudy sky)

Eugène Brands | Composition, gouache on paper, 22.1 x 20.7 cm, signed l.r. and dated on the reverse 14.II.1967

Eugène Brands

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Composition

Eugène Brands | Chimney, gouache on paper, 49.5 x 37.2 cm, signed l.l. with initials

Eugène Brands

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Chimney

Constant | Dieren (Animals), lithograph, 29.0 x 22.0 cm, signed l.c. and dated '48

Constant

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Dieren (Animals)

Eugène Brands | Landscape, gouache on paper, 33.0 x 37.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated '66

Eugène Brands

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Landscape

Eugène Brands | The mother-of-pearl box, gouache on paper, 26.7 x 34.8 cm, signed l.l. and dated 10.53

Eugène Brands

watercolour • drawing • for sale

The mother-of-pearl box

Karel Appel | Musique Barbare, lithograph, 28.0 x 37.5 cm, signed l.r. (in the stone) and executed ca. 1963

Karel Appel

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Musique Barbare

Corneille | Untitled, glazed pottery, signed l.r. (in the clay) and dated '98 (in the clay)

Corneille

statue • sculptuur • for sale

Untitled

Eugène Brands | Tuin in de zomer (Garden in summer), oil on paper, 50.4 x 54.4 cm, signed l.l. and dated 1961

Eugène Brands

painting • for sale

Tuin in de zomer (Garden in summer)

Corneille | Woman, cat and birds, lithograph on paper, 45.0 x 33.0 cm, signed l.r. (in potlood) and dated '95 (in potlood)

Corneille

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Woman, cat and birds

Karel Appel | Dancing man, lithograph on paper, 66.0 x 55.0 cm, signed l.r. (in pencil) and dated '70  (in pencil)

Karel Appel

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Dancing man

Karel Appel | A beast drawn man, lithograph on paper, 50.0 x 40.0 cm, signed l.r. (in pencil) and dated '61 (in pencil)

Karel Appel

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A beast drawn man

Karel Appel | Composition, lithograph, 38.9 x 49.8 cm, signed l.r. and dated '60

Karel Appel

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Composition

Anton Rooskens | Composition, lithograph, 70.1 x 49.7 cm, signed l.r. (in pencil) and dated '73 (in pencil)

Anton Rooskens

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Composition

Anton Rooskens | Composition, lithograph, 70.0 x 49.6 cm, signed l.r. (in pencil) and dated '73 (in pencil)

Anton Rooskens

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Composition

Anton Rooskens | Composition, lithograph, 70.0 x 49.6 cm, signed l.r. (in pencil) and dated '73 (in pencil)

Anton Rooskens

prints & multiples • for sale

Composition


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